I found out today that Alpine Type-R coax with Kartboy spacers will NOT work in the door. The window hits them just barely and moves the metal panel. Now I'll have to add a 1/4" cutting board which will be easily enough clearance. I tried dynmat on each side of spacer first, it didn't make any difference. I'm not putting this back together half assed so now I have to work on this for a while.

Tomorrow I go looking for a 1/4" cutting board, I will need two, one for each door. I will just trace the Kartboy template and it should be easy to make. I might try Lowes, Target, Safeway, and who knows where else. Doesn't have to be anything special, but I don't want 1/2" thick which most are. I only need like 2mm clearance, so I want to keep it to a 1/2" Kartboy and a 1/4" custom. There will be dynamat between each piece of the setup. Also, I cannot use the cheap plastic screw holes that hold the stock speaker anymore. They are not strong enough to screw tight for all these spacers. So I will buy slightly longer nuts and bolts and attach the template that way. Then I'll hold up the speaker and screw it in.

BUT... one of my new Stinger RCA from ebay is bad! One channel is dead. Took me forever to figure it out. I think I got them from bagboy on ebay (Darvex), and I threw away the wrappers days ago. Wasted $45 on that RCA and then its broke out of box. I'm gonna buy a $20 RCA now, I don't care anymore.

I swapped my RCA left/right to use my working side RCA on the new door installation. It sounds amazing, even with only one amplified speaker. (And 3 speakers off deck power). It is crystal clear crossed over at 80Hz HP with a 18dB slope. I tried 60Hz/24dB and didn't like it as much. I heard no buzz or vibration even with my lightly dampened doors. I can't wait to hear double that power once my other door is done. My Alpine amp gain is 1/2 way currently. I might lower it to 2/3 once I get started tuning. The amp speaker is so loud I can barely hear any of the other 3 which has 22Wrms each.

Which brings me to my subwoofer.. After hearing one half of my front stage, I am already deciding against dual 10's. Mostly because I didn't want to use up that much space. I think a 10" Type-R with 600Wrms would fill the voids nicely. If I put a dual 10" box in there 1/2 my trunk is gone. I am eyeballing the Audio Integrations custom box to match my amp rack, but it's a bit pricey. I can't make my final decision until both doors are up and running and I do some tuning.

Sounds like all is well I'll have to come to you for all my adio advice. There isn't too many guys on here that are into a good system. To me it is more important than how the car drives because at the end of the day that is what makes me happy.

Sounds like all is well I'll have to come to you for all my adio advice. There isn't too many guys on here that are into a good system. To me it is more important than how the car drives because at the end of the day that is what makes me happy.

well ya me too. I did all the power mods first. Its perfect as far as speed now. So I am adding tunes to complete an awesome package.

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